If in 2013 Yamaha had surprised the world with its first car, the city concept Motiv.e, it was time to make a foray into small sports cars. The low weight (750 kg) and small dimensions (3.9 m long, 1.72 m wide and 1.17 m high) are the recipe for a good dose of fun at the wheel.
According to the brand, the Yamaha Sports Ride Concept has two seats and aims to provide the rider with a kind of go-kart feeling (where have we heard this?…) mixed with the feeling of riding a motorcycle.
The evolution of Gordon Murray's creation
In 2013 we previewed here the route that Yamaha would take in automobiles, a novelty for the motorcycle manufacturer and above all a glimpse of the capabilities of the process developed by Gordon Murray's atelier for the construction of automobiles, the iStream. If you don't know what iStream is, this article explains it all.
Certainly Murray's genius, who counts on his resume with records of excellence like the McLaren F1, would not see the iStream deplete in the Motiv.e concept. In fact, this method was designed for various types of small vehicles. see this prediction of possible iStream variations, unveiled in 2013 at the Tokyo Motor Show, can you find the Yamaha Sports Ride Concept?
However, there is a big change to register in the iStream process: in the Yamaha Sports Ride Concept they used carbon fiber, instead of the fiberglass used in the Motiv.e concept, to build the body.
Motorization
There are no official data on the engine of the Yamaha Sports Ride Concept, but it seems that it could be equipped with the same engine as the Motiv.e. concept, a 1.0 three-cylinder, with a power between 70 and 80 hp. Acceleration from 0-100 km/h should be under 10 seconds.
